Gutun Owain ( fl. 1456–1497) was a poet in the

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. He was born near Oswestry in what is now north

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and was a student of

Dafydd ab Edmwnd Dafydd ap Edmwnd (fl. c. 1450–97) was one of the most prominent Welsh language poets of the Later Middle Ages. Life Dafydd was born into a family of Norman ancestry in Hanmer, in Flintshire (now Wrexham County Borough), north-east Wales. As a ...

. Gutun Owain was closely associated with the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis where he was the principal scribe of the S text of '' Brenhinoedd y Saeson'' preserved in the

Black Book of Basingwerk The Black Book of Basingwerk ( cy, Llyfr Du Basing) is an illuminated manuscript in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 7006D) containing, among other texts, a Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia Regum Britanniae ''Histor ...

, and where he may have been responsible for the continuation of that chronicle from 1333 to its end in 1461.

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